Reposted by: Pablo Piccato, Juan Cole
I am honored to be a colleague (and student) of Rashid Khalidi and his public lectures on Palestine at The People's Forum have started. Please learn!
Short Course on Palestine Class 1: The Origins of The Hundred Years War
YouTube video by The People's Forum NYC
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by Pablo Piccato — Reposted by: Paulo Drinot
Next October 30, I will be discussing A Brief History of Violence in Mexico with my friends Thomas Rath, Gema Kloppe-Santamaría, Paulo Drinot and Ben Smith www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
A Brief History of Violence in Mexico
This session will discuss A Brief History of Violence in Mexico by Pablo Piccato (Columbia University).
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From Columbia’s Mark Mazower: www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...
The origins of today’s conflict between American Jews over Israel
In the early years, American Jewish support for Israel was a fraught issue. The turning point was the six-day war of 1967, which solidified a strength of feeling that has only recently begun to fract...
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An amicus brief has been filed on behalf of Khalid Mahmood arguing against the characterization of Columbia University antisemitic institution. See the document: acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...
Adobe Acrobat
https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:US:71da01b6-3bc4-4a4a-9fce-bd90ec637e5f
Reposted by: Pablo Piccato
Remember Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil who was abducted and detained for his pro-Palestinian speech?
His story is a prime example of what can happen when a school abandons its students to the whim of the government.
His story is a prime example of what can happen when a school abandons its students to the whim of the government.
“Weiss’s publication, in short, was the preferred vehicle for conveying information from Columbia insiders who wanted to purge all criticism of Israel from the university to Trump administration officials who were using … financial pressure to help them do … that” www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...
Disgruntled NYT journalist to ‘anti-woke’ power grab: how far can Bari Weiss go?
After leaving the New York Times, she turned her Substack into an unshakable pro-Israel voice. Now as Paramount eyes acquisition of her company, Weiss is poised to become Trump’s ally among media elit...
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Reposted by: Pablo Piccato
Together, Texans built one of the finest systems of higher education in the world. Ideologues and opportunists are tearing it down. It is a despicable act of generational vandalism that will hurt all Texans, their children, their grandchildren, and their great-grandchildren.
Professors want to leave Texas because of tense political climate, survey says
Professors’ concerns included the state’s DEI ban and new limits to faculty influence at colleges and universities.
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Correct on the banal pledges of neutrality by real-estate-operations-with-tax-breaks administrators, but still relying on the simplistic taxonomy of “liberals” vs “conservatives” in the faculty. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
How to save the American university
As Trump threatens funding and public trust plummets, US schools are in the fight of a lifetime. This is how they can survive – with their souls intact
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“To equate the expression of such views with antisemitism is not only wrong; as Judt warned, it also risks putting Jewish students in greater danger.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
The Troubling Lines That Columbia Is Drawing
By adopting an overly broad and controversial definition of antisemitism, the university is putting both academic freedom and its Jewish students at risk.
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Reposted by: Pablo Piccato
My new book ‘Hispanic Technocracy: From Fascism to Catholic Authoritarianism in Spain, Argentina, and
Chile' with @CambridgeUP is out now! cambridge.org/9781009603041
Chile' with @CambridgeUP is out now! cambridge.org/9781009603041
The personal narrative is more interesting than the authoritarian thinking, of course. “The Harvard-Trained Lawyer Behind Trump’s Fight Against Top Universities” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...
The Harvard-Trained Lawyer Behind Trump’s Fight Against Top Universities
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Una conversación sobre mi libro con Sara Hidalgo y Sergio Aguayo
“Columbia’s capitulation has turned a university that was once a site of free inquiry and learning into a shadow of its former self, an-anti university, a gated security zone with electronic entry controls, a place of fear and loathing”
Columbia University’s agreement with the Trump administration is a disaster for academic freedom, freedom of speech, & the independence of American higher education. Never in the history of our nation has an educational institution so thoroughly bent to the will of an autocrat.
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"No established legal process was followed for the Columbia agreement; no genuine legal dispute was resolved."
Pablo Piccato
@ppiccato.bsky.social
· Jul 24
"another unprecedented feature of the situation ... that might ... prove the most consequential of all: the way in which the federal government is seeking to reshape the internal operations of universities not through generally applicable directives, but rather through a series of bilateral “deals”"
Pablo Piccato
@ppiccato.bsky.social
· Jul 24
"The agreement is also the first to require a university to fork over money to the government as a condition of receiving money from the government, bringing a new brand of pay-to-play into the world of scientific and medical research."
“a poorer, smaller Columbia would at least still be a university committed to freedom of expression and academic autonomy”. Columbia’s Administrators Are Fooling Themselves www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
Opinion | Columbia’s Administrators Are Fooling Themselves
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Reposted by: Pablo Piccato, Jennifer Clark
This has been the first major trial of Trump’s second term. Over eight days of witness testimony, it uncovered a wealth of new detail about the ideological-deportation policy and its effects on college and university campuses across the country.
#AAUPvRubio
#AAUPvRubio
Landmark Trial Ends, With Court’s Ruling to Come; Record Uncovers New Details on Ideological-Deportation Policy and Its Effects on Academic Life
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Reposted by: Pablo Piccato
Acting Columbia President Shipman’s statement, “Our Additional Commitments to Combatting Antisemitism,” released on 7/15/25, announces an enhanced commitment to tolerance and mutual respect.
"The policies announced in her statement of July 15 . . . . weaken the principles and norms of free speech and academic autonomy that have been pillars of this and other great educational institutions." The statement is also here:
